Can I ask a stupid question?
Since it took an act of Congress to allow gays in the military openly, why doesn’t it take an act of Congress to allow transwhatever individuals to openly serve???
I would resign my commission before I let one of my Sergeants (this guy is no NCO) undermine morale and unit cohesion like this SSG King must be doing.
There were many here in FR who celebrated the appointment of Ashton Carter...
A question for the Defense Department: Does a man who self-identifies as a woman still have to register for the draft?
So which uniform clothing allowance would a gender fluid person receive? Male or female? There is a difference.
I pray DOD will be able to hold this off until President Trump takes over next January and cleans house.
Good I say slow this crap to a crawl until sane adults are back in charge, then fire this ding bat.
So does he/she get scored on the female PT test chart? What about the body fat chart?
Please Lord, have mercy on us. I know our nation is attempting to be more sinful and disgusting than Sodom and Gomorrah, but there are still many of us who despise such behavior.
Tempest in a teapot.
Only .5-1.5% of the population is homo/bisexual.
The percentage of transsexuals is even a smaller fraction of that minuscule itsy-bitsy percentage.
Bottom line: we're looking at less that ten American people. Tempest in a teapot to sell newspapers, so to speak.
Those men-to-women will still age like the males they were born and the women-to-men will still age like the women they were born. DNA trumps all and those pathetic souls will just have to deal with it.
I think it's the saddest thing on earth to hate one's own gender. Changing some plumbing does NOTHING. They OUGHT to be as concerned about their immortal souls as they are about their plumbing. THAT deal IS for eternity.
Am I right armydawg505 or what?
Does it make sense for the military to jump through hoops to meet the self perceived needs of transgenders? The mission of the military is to fight. If only 1 to 2% of the nation is gay, then what percent is transgendered? Jumping through hoops just doesn’t make sense. The military needs to focus on being an effective fighting force, and not this cr*p.
WTF!?!
Let’s pray we retain the house and the senate and Trump wins — Because if Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriends wife wins there will be doubling down of this insanity.
The US military at some point will hardly be able to defeat the weakest military.
How many transgender are there and how many are in the military or would want to serve? We are turning the whole military upside down for just one or two individuals
Has anyone asked how these people are to be considered deployable, or is that just too un-PC?
When MrT5 retired from the Army-1990-plenty of people who required daily medication for a chronic condition were considered non-deployable, given a disability rating and discharged. His last year as a VA benefits counselor-in 2008-he said joked that if someone wanted out on a service related disability, all they had to do was claim they were depressed and get a scrip for antidepressant meds. I’m sure MrT5 is beating his head on some wall in the next life, seeing this...
How is it that suddenly someone who requires daily doses of hormones to keep up the appearance of a fake gender-never mind that they are emotionally unstable-is now deployable-after all, what could possibly go wrong...
Question is how much damage can hussein do in his last 8 months and will a Pres. Trump reverse the damage.
So, we’ll now need an extra truck following each unit with all their hormone meds. Will it also have to supply femine hygiene products for imaginary periods? Oh, the huge manatee when one gets shot in their fake boob or pec. Do you really want to be in a fox hole with one who is having a bad hair day or chipped their nail polish?
Mental illness used to disqualify applicants for military service. Now they’ll take crazies, if they’re the “right kind” of crazy!
my guess is that the army is just delaying to the next election when sanity returns to the White House